This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
crypto: lrw - Free rctx->ext with kzfree
to the 4.16-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...
The filename of the patch is: crypto-lrw-free-rctx-ext-with-kzfree.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.16 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.
From 8c9bdab21289c211ca1ca6a5f9b7537b4a600a02 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Herbert Xu herbert@gondor.apana.org.au Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2018 08:14:44 +0800 Subject: crypto: lrw - Free rctx->ext with kzfree
From: Herbert Xu herbert@gondor.apana.org.au
commit 8c9bdab21289c211ca1ca6a5f9b7537b4a600a02 upstream.
The buffer rctx->ext contains potentially sensitive data and should be freed with kzfree.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 700cb3f5fe75 ("crypto: lrw - Convert to skcipher") Reported-by: Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu herbert@gondor.apana.org.au Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
--- crypto/lrw.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/crypto/lrw.c +++ b/crypto/lrw.c @@ -313,7 +313,7 @@ static void exit_crypt(struct skcipher_r rctx->left = 0;
if (rctx->ext) - kfree(rctx->ext); + kzfree(rctx->ext); }
static int do_encrypt(struct skcipher_request *req, int err)
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from herbert@gondor.apana.org.au are
queue-4.16/crypto-caam-fix-null-dereference-at-error-path.patch queue-4.16/crypto-ccp-fill-the-result-buffer-only-on-digest-finup-and-final-ops.patch queue-4.16/crypto-talitos-fix-ipsec-cipher-in-length.patch queue-4.16/crypto-x86-cast5-avx-fix-ecb-encryption-when-long-sg-follows-short-one.patch queue-4.16/crypto-arm-arm64-fix-random-regeneration-of-s_shipped.patch queue-4.16/crypto-ccp-return-an-actual-key-size-from-rsa-max_size-callback.patch queue-4.16/crypto-inside-secure-fix-clock-management.patch queue-4.16/crypto-lrw-free-rctx-ext-with-kzfree.patch queue-4.16/crypto-testmgr-fix-incorrect-values-in-pkcs-1-test-vector.patch queue-4.16/crypto-talitos-don-t-persistently-map-req_ctx-hw_context-and-req_ctx-buf.patch queue-4.16/crypto-ahash-fix-early-termination-in-hash-walk.patch